Dish-washer



(No Model.)

W. D. MILLER.

DISH WASHER. No. 399,426. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

muzwboz UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLTAM l). MILLER, OI l IiORENFE, NASSAUILSETIS.

DISH-WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,426, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed October 10, 1888. Serial No. 287,749. (No model.)

Be it known that 1, \YILLIAM' D. .slnmnn, a citizen of the United States. residing at Florence, in the county of .llampshire and St ate of Massachuse s,'have invented new and useful Improvements in Dish-\Vashers. oi? which the following is specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a metallic dish-washer eomprisin a bundle of connected links or rings of wire at tached to a rigid handle, whereby the same maybe eonveniently and effectively used without the ne cessity of putting the hands in. the water; and it consists in the construction and combination of the various parts, all sulistantially as will hereinafter fully appear, and be set: forth in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the aecom mnying drawings, forn'iing part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the im- 2 proved dish-Washer. Fig. 2 is a plan view of l the frame portion of the washer as seen below the line 2 2, Fig. .l; and Fig. 3 is a section or length of one of the chains forming part of the washer.

The frame A is .i ulllltd of wire, and comprises the handle portion o and the angular radial legsl), of suitable in'unber. In the construction shown eight pieces or lengths of wire are employed, pairs of which are twisted upon themselves, except as to their end portions, and the four sets of dual-formed wires are then iutermediatel y bent upon themselves and twisted for a portion of their lengths one upon the other, and the outer end portions of all the wires are bent at about right angles to the length of the handle to form the chainsupporting legs Z), and each leg-forming end portion near its extremity reversely bent l on itself and by its end :tttaehed to the inner portion ot' the leg, as at f, forming elongated closed eyes m, for the retentitm of the end links oi the chains 9 thereon, said linksbeing engaged with said eyes before their being closed or afterward by opening the links, as desired. The chains are held by their ends on separate legs ot thehandle-trame, and said chains by their middle portions hang below the legs, and as manyof. the chains as desired or requisite are to be employed. and both ends of each chain may, if desired be connected on one and the same leg; and, again, it desired, the chains may be only secured by one end, the other being left free.

lhe construction substantially as d eseribed enables a very large number of the chains to be employed, and the link-termed bundle or swab may be of as great density or compactness at or near its axial portion as at its exterior, enabling the device to possess capabilities for greater eltectiveness; and, further, under the construction described cheapness and durability are important resultant advantages. 

